Engineering Manager Database Reliability

Lead Wave's database reliability team across multiple environments. Drive database performance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, resilient production operations, hiring, and team development.

Responsibilities

• Support engineers in architecting, maintaining, and evolving reliable high-performance database technologies.
• Mentor and coach a globally distributed database engineering team.
• Shape incident response, postmortems, and capacity-planning processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams on database initiatives.
• Drive monitoring, cost optimization, and performance tuning for Postgres and CockroachDB.
• Hire and grow the database reliability team.
• Build tooling to observe and debug outages and performance problems.
• Harden backend systems against incidents.
• Enable product teams to identify and resolve reliability and performance issues.
• Respond to incidents, analyze postmortems, and prioritize follow-up actions.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience managing database or storage teams.
• Availability in a timezone between GMT-1 and GMT+3.
• Willingness to travel to Africa once per year for approximately six days.
• People management experience including coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development.
• Project management experience including prioritization, schedule tracking, deadline management, and cross-functional communication.
• Experience designing operational processes including on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Hiring experience including staffing planning, interview design, candidate evaluation, and offer-stage support.
• Experience running mission-critical production databases, including replication, backups, migrations, and high availability or disaster recovery.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration skills.
• Cloud or data center infrastructure experience, preferably GCP.

Benefits

• Yearly $1,200 coworking meetup stipend.
• Travel costs covered for annual travel to operational markets.
• Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents.
• Retirement contributions.
• Six months of fully paid parental leave.
• Subsidized fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
• Equity package.